The School of Cities welcomes students, faculty, researchers, practitioners, and community members across urban sectors by offering fellowships, grants, projects, residencies, and training and development. Explore our programs and opportunities below.
Visiting Experts
Visiting experts are globally influential practitioners in civil society, the arts, business, media and government; members of the global urban academic community; and emerging leaders in their urban-related sectors. Our Visiting Experts program includes Canadian Urban Leaders, Early Career Canadian Urban Leaders, Urbanists-in-Residence, and Visiting Professors.
Story & Image Competition
The Short Story & Image Competition invited U of T students to pair original fiction with visual art, exploring SofC themes like climate and justice; migration, belonging, and thriving in cities; or inequality, data, and democracy.
Grants
Urban Challenge Grants
The Urban Challenge Grants (UCG) program builds multidisciplinary scholarly communities of practice within U of T around complex urban challenges. The grants fund timely research, knowledge dissemination, and community engagement to address emerging research questions, and provide seed funding for pilot studies that could ultimately lead to transformative or high-impact research.
Postdoctoral Matching Program
This occasional grant program supports postdoctoral fellows at U of T undertaking research that aligns with our key themes of climate justice and belonging, migration and thriving and aims to lift the work of emerging scholars and advance the research of our colleagues across disciplines.
Small Grants Program
The Small Grants Program supports knowledge mobilization and translation, public policy engagement, curricular innovations, and other activities that address urban issues and contribute to efforts that make cities more sustainable, prosperous, inclusive and just.